Deliberate practice – Pluralistic Practice

Deliberate Practice (and Why it Matters to Pluralistic Therapy)

November 7, 2019 Deliberate practice Practice Training 1 Comment

Alexander Vaz (ISPA-University Institute, Portugal) Deliberate Practice (DP) is a training philosophy that represents one of the most evidence-based methods we know of to improve ‘performance’ in an effective and reliable manner. Decades of research have demonstrated that lengthy engagement in DP is associated with expert performance across a variety…

Developing Practitioner Confidence: Observations from Teaching Pluralism

November 6, 2019 Deliberate practice Training No Comments

Marcella Finnerty, IICP College, Dublin As an institution, IICP College, has always been integrative, and more recently pluralistic, in its teaching approach. But we have struggled with how and when to present such ideas to our students. By the time we introduce pluralistic counselling and psychotherapy, our students are already…